Slava Rubin and Sahil Lavingia breakdown crowdfunding options at TechCrunch Early Stage

Calendly, GoPro, and SPANX are just a few of the big-name companies that have bootstrapped their way to success without any outside investment.

The majority of early-stage startups eventually have to move out of their bootstrapping stage to tap into outside sources of capital from institutional investors.

A new SEC regulation increased the pool of money available through regulated equity crowdfunding from one million dollars to five million dollars.

That five-fold increase is a good reason to consider Crowdfunding for your startup. We invited the founder and CEO of Gumroad, Slava Rubin, and a co- founder of both humbition andVincent.

They will discuss when it makes sense to crowd source capital, the SEC regulations, and the different options for founders. There are more ways to acquire money to start a business than ever before. How do you navigate the best funding route for your company?

When he leftPinterest, he found Gumroad, an e-commerce platform where creatives sell their digital products directly to customers. Lavingia offers an honest assessment of his Gumroad journey in his essay, Reflecting on My Failure to build a Billion-Dollar Company and is the author of the book, "The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Entrepreneurs Do More with Less."

Lavingia founded SHL Capital in 2020, which invests more than 15 million a year in early-stage startups. Figma, HelloSign and the Bloom Institute of Technology are some of the investments.

Slava Rubin co-founded Indiegogo in 2006 and was the CEO for more than a decade, leading the organization to become one of the world's largest crowdfunding platforms with more than $1 billion distributed worldwide.

Rubin foundedVincent, a platform offering the largest selection of alternative investments, making discovery and due diligence easier for investors and changing how people access them. humbition is a $30M early-stage venture fund. Hedera, GOAT, Braintrust and Carta are all in his angel portfolio.

Rubin was at the White House when the JOBS Act was signed by the Obama administration.

Don't miss this session if you're looking for funding or curious about it. Join Slava Rubin and Sahil Lavingia as they discuss when and why it makes sense to start a crowdfunded business. They will discuss what it takes to crowdfund successfully.

There is plenty of time to engage, ask questions and learn about topics and skills that are essential to startup success. We will run out of $249 tickets and prices will go up.